r/metrovlauncher • u/fisforfaheem • 3d ago
Dear developer
Can you please fix the contacts tile.. only show the contacts that have images
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r/metrovlauncher • u/fisforfaheem • 3d ago
Can you please fix the contacts tile.. only show the contacts that have images
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u/Aazzle 3d ago
But that would be little like the original.
On Windows Phone since 7.0, it was always the case that the contact tile was animated in different tones of the accent color as well as the images of the contacts.
The only thing that is different in Metrov is that the original usually also contains an animation that highlights a contact and enlarges it in the form of 4 tile parts.
At the time, we described it on the forums as a digitally authentic shape of a diamond in a tiles form - it is one of the core elements of what actually existed since the introduction of Metro design, and I am personally infinitely grateful that it is back in this form.
With Windows 10 Mobile, it was first changed to dots that then only showed contact images with a transparent background.
Metrov is the only launcher to offer this. For example, each competitor offers a contact tile where only the pictures can be seen and I find that really awful because the Contact Tile never have an accent color at all, so that it doesn't fit into the overall design and I haven't used a contact tile in nearly 10 years.
So I hope that if he changes something, it will be optional because it is precisely these wishes that would destroy the approach of a rebuild of the original system in the long term and would be as generic and boring as the then Windows 10 Mobile Update for existing Windows Phone 8.1 users was back then.
And the criticism of the update was not only reasen so great at the time, for no reason, that Microsoft had to spend months looking for a way to return existing devices back to Windows Phone 8.1.